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900
earliest hint of Parachutes
Hints of parachute like umbrellas have been found in china. -
1180
Guang dong
One day a thief climbed to top of the roof and stole one leg of a gold rooster. He successfully achieved his plan and jumped from the roof, landing on the ground holding tightly to two umbrellas without the handles. -
1308
Yuan emperor
There are also historical accounts from 1308 indicating that again the acrobatics of the parachute activities appeared in the palace of the Yuan Emperor. -
1452
Leonardo Da Vinci
There has only been a sketch of this work -
1470
Anonymous
One of the oldest known sketch of a parachute, by an anonymous author -
1551
Fausto Veranzio
examined da Vinci's parachute sketch and kept the square frame but replaced the canopy with a bulging sail-like piece of cloth that he came to realize decelerates a fall more effectively. -
Modern thailand
In 1650 the parachute was being used in Siam (modern Thailand), which was outside of Chinese territory. -
Louis-Sébastien Lenormand
he jumped from the tower of Montpelier observatory -
Pierre Blanchard
The first emergency use of a parachute was made by Jean Pierre Blanchard in 1785 after the hot air balloon he was in exploded. -
Andre Garnerin
He made the first use of a frameless parachute -
Captain Thomas Baldwin
The next major contribution to parachute systems was the development of a harness by Captain Thomas Baldwin -
Paul Letteman and Kathchen Paulus
The concept of folding or packing the parachute in a knapsak-like container was developed by Paul Letteman and Kathchen Paulus in 1890. -
Captain Albert berry
He is one of the two first people credited to jump of a plane with a parachute -
De Prins der Geïllustreerde Bladen
A parachute of his appeared in a dutch magazine -
Gleb Kotelnikov
He Invented the knapsack parachute -
Pino
Also in 1911, an Italian, Pino, invented the pilot chute or drogue chute.' He attached a small parachute with a rigid frame to his helmet. The pilot chute would easily inflate, pull the helmet off and then pull the parachute out into the airstream. -
Franz Reichelt
He is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his design -
Georgia Broadwick
On June 21, 1913, Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to parachute-jump from a moving aircraft, doing so over Los Angeles, California. She did it because her adopted father did it and so because of him she did the same. -
Domina Jalbert
By the late 1970's the parawing was replaced by the parafoil aka the Ram air, invented in the middle 1960's by Domina Jalbert, a kite maker. -
Felix Baumgartner
He is best known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012. Doing so, he set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km. -
Crew dragon
A SpaceX Crew Dragon test article lands at Delamar Dry Lake, Nevada, to complete a test of the parachute system. -
Boeing
Boeing tests parachutes for its Starliner spacecraft over Yuma, Arizona
